On Sun, 05 Jun 2016 18:54:12 +0100
Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@???> wrote:

> What's "a daemon"?
>
> (...)
>
> And no 'package' not specifically created for this use case could
> provide the meta-information needed here.


Hallo Rainer,

this sounds much like a rhetoric question. I think for any attempt to
unify things, you'll find corner cases that won't work out-of-the-box
and I bet that you had to create the init scripts for your use case
manually as well. Do you think my (naive!) suggestion would make that
any more difficult?

I have not the necessary knowledge to realize this thing, but surely
enough to get things done, once this idea should prove good and start
rolling. My strength is definitely not coding (probably because I never
really dived into it), but unfocusedly (?) watching things and ask
questions. Sometimes I can even answer one - and if the answer /
suggestion is BS, I am honestly happy to be told so. How else would I
learn?

In this case I read a lot about init freedom and the troubles of
maintaining scripts/config for numerous init systems multiplied with
a quite huge number of daemons (or say, "stuff continously running in
the background" if you prefer). Devuan has started with great ambitions
towards "init freedom", not for the ego but for the idea of free(*)
and modular software. If this idea should prove realistic and find
support, it could easily be adopted by "upstream".

On the other hand, if this idea should turn out to be nonsense, it
surely won't be the reason for me to jump out of the window. A much
more serious reason could be the amount of opportunists on this planet,
who are not able to express their opinion or feelings or questions
straight in my face - and I have the impression, that you understand
what I mean.

libre Grüße and best regards,

Florian


NB: I live on the ground floor^^